Stray by Cynthia Rylant - Cabarrus County Schools

Stray From Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant . Copyright 1985. Reprinted by permission of Aladdin Paperbacks. In January, a puppy wandered onto the property of Mr. Amos Lacey and his wife, Mamie, and their daughter, Doris. Icicles hung three feet or more from the eaves of houses, snowdrifts swallowed up automobiles and the birds were so fluffed up they looked comic. The puppy had been abandoned, and it made its way down the road toward the Laceys small house, its ears tucked, its tail between its legs, shivering. Doris, whose school had been called off because of the snow, was out shoveling the cinderblock front steps when she spotted the pup on the road. She set down the shovel. Hey! Come on! she called. The puppy stopped in the road, wagging its tail timidly, trembling with shyness and cold. Doris trudged through the yard, went up the shoveled drive and met the dog. Come on, Pooch.

Mrs. Lacey shook her head, “You know we can’t afford a dog, Doris. You try to act more grown-up about this.” Doris pressed her face into the pillow.

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